I have been a narrow gauge freak for over 30 years, back then, many countries
boasted working narrow gauge steam - by which I mean (by and large) railways
with a gauge of less than one metre, but which are not 'miniature' again it is
an arbitrary decision on my part. Now those countries with real narrow gauge
steam can be counted on the fingers of one hand and nowhere is it remotely
plentiful. So this page has to widen its scope to include operating museums and
railways which will organise charter trains for visiting groups etc. If you have
got to this page through search engines, please be aware that similar
information is available for those who are broader minded through my
main international steam pages. See also my museums
page which will include references to non-active steam.

As always, updates, additions and corrections will be very welcome.

If your interest extends beyond steam, then the following sites will provide
useful information along with that on steam:

Non-steam Narrow Gauge Railways round the World - my
own contribution (last updated 27th October 2018) - this continues to NOT include
most of Europe)

For an English language summary of extant lines please check out http://www.austrian-railways.org/argng.htm
(link is dead, hijacked 26th March 2012). These
are direct links to most of the operating railway's websites which are largely
German language although the major ones have parts in English. The amount of
steam activity varies from daily in the tourist season to occasional.

Keith Taylorson tells me (19th November 2018): "A steam special due to be run for a British touring group on 8th November (outside the railway’s normal operating season) was cancelled at five days’ notice. Another charter in December also will not run. A message from the railway’s management said this was due to financial problems. It was not clear if this has any implications for the running of trains in 2019."

Stoomcentrum Maldegem has a 600mm gauge railway. None of the
five steam locomotives present is serviceable, but one at least will be
restored fairly soon. Read Thomas Kautzor's
report (30th September 2013).

Bosnia
(updated 9th October 2014)

The coal mine at Banovici has working steam, although I believe its status is
now spare to diesels. For the reports check the Europe page
on this site (latest report may be 9th October
2014). Click here for James Waite's photo report of a double headed
charter in February 2012 (2nd March 2012)

An extraordinary story is the construction of a
replica 600mm gauge Orenstein and Koppel 0-6-0T by 'Kolínská
Lokomotivní'. Chris Capewell found it nearing completion in early
September 2014 and Ing. Svatopluk Šlechta captured the locomotive on
4th October 2014 during its first test run at Sendražice (Kolín) on the
restored railway there (see below). For more information see http://www.1loco.eu/EN.building.replicas.steam.locomotives.php
or http://www.1loco.eu.

Thomas Kautzor adds (21st April 2015) "It was built by 1. Kolínská Lokomotivní, which is owned by the Bednar brothers from
Brno. They have restored a number of standard and narrow gauge steam locos so far, including the two Brigadeloks MI-631 and MI-611 for the Ventspils park railway:
The OK 40 HP 0-6-0T is their only newly built loco so far but they are also offering to build other OK 0-4-0T and 0-6-0T models (10 to 50 HP):
There is, however, not a big market for newly-built narrow gauge steam locos, because financial cost of acquiring an existing loco and restoring it is roughly equal.

They have however built a non-working replica Brigadelok for display in a park in Zemplínske Hámre (eastern Slovakia). The loco looks very close to the real thing and even incorporates some parts taken off MI-631 from Ventspils when is was overhauled at
Kolin:

The 40 HP OK was on display at the Prag Technical Museum for three month over the
winter 2015-5.

The narrow gauge lines from Jindřichův to Hradec and Obrataň operate a
diesel service with steam on summer weekends and special days, for their own
website see http://www.jhmd.cz/.
In addition to the U47 here originally, Heinrich Hubbert adds (1st September 2008)
that in August 2008 there were two further steam locomotives working - a Resita
and a PX 48.
James Waite has sent a
report of his visit (2nd September 2008), to which I have added a couple of
loco portrait shots (30th August 2014)..

Chris Cairns was here on 3rd and 6th August 2012 and
variously found U37.002, U46.001 and U46.101 at work (13th August 2012).

Heinrich Hubbert adds (1st September 2008) a Resita 0-8-0T is now available for
special workings on the last CD narrow gauge line between Osoblaha and Třemešná
in the North East of the country - see http://www.orchestrion.cz/narrow.htm
for basic information on this railway and http://ftp.czechtourism.com/133premier/en/cd/en/news/news133.htm
(link is dead) for information on steam operation (at least in 2006). James Waite has now been
there to see a repatriated (from Bosnia) Skoda
0-10-0 at work (updated with historical notes, 28th February 2011).

"I went to a restored narrow gauge railway in a large industrial town called Kolin, a pleasant 50 mile round trip along the Labe by bike (the old paddle steamer is still there by the way, untouched). I was at Kolin last year when restoration work was still under way, but it is now open to the public and runs a weekend
service. I had a look at
http://www.mapy.cz and it appears that all of the buildings have been erected in the past couple of years. Money came from the EU as well as local companies such as Toyota. They have a web site with some English content -
http://www.zeleznicka.bloudil.cz/?lang=cz (link dead by 12th April 2018).
It was built in the 1840s to carry sugar beet from the fields to the processing plant."

The Zbýšov museum of industrial railways, and its associated 600mm gauge line between Zastávka u Brna and Zbýšov
are close to Brno. The operating line runs on the trackbed of an old standard gauge line originally built to connect coal mines at Zbýšov with the main line at Zastávka. They have a 1951-built CKD 0-4-0T which runs on some dates and operate some of their extensive collection of historic diesel and electric locos on others. Details of their 2012 schedule are at
http://www.reuz.cz/uvod/ (Czech language - the steam dates are the ones in the list starting "Jízdy s parní
lokomotivou"). Note that there's a connecting main line steam special from Brno scheduled for 22nd September 2012. There are briefer details of the line at
http://www.mpz.cz which has an English-language page.
(All this paragraph revised thanks to James Waite, 24th November 2011)

Up in the north east of the country there's the Mladejov 760mm gauge line, now a heritage steam railway but formerly an industrial line. Two of its distinctive Krauss Linz locos survive and have both been in operation in 2011. Its website, Czech language only, is at
http://www.mladejov.cz/uvodni-stranka.
For
some excellent pictures of the railway when it was still real, see http://spz.logout.cz/uzke/cz_mladejov/mladejov.html
(Czech language, added 18th November 2009).

This section has historically been allowed to grow in a totally unplanned
manner. After some prodding and assistance I am happy to present it in a more
helpful manner: Given the shape of the country (almost square) the best way to
list the lines seems to be alphabetically by region / area:

Musee de Tramways a Vapeur et des Chemin de Fer Secondaires
Francais (formerly Musée des Transports de la Vallée du
Saudderon, Valmondois) (metre gauge)
- short rides only - http://www.musee-mtvs.com/, see Thomas
Kautzor's report from August 2013 (24th November 2013) and his
October 2018 update (12th October 2018). It seems that relocation of
the operational side to near Crèvecoeur-le-Grand north of Beauvais has
gone ahead. The website suggests that the museum is still at Butry-sur-Oise
but only open to pre-booked groups of 20 or more.

Thomas Kautzor has produced a 'potpourri' of preserved
items in this area which includes some narrow gauge items, some of which
are steam, but none active (10th September 2015).

Rhône Alpes

CF Vivarais (metre gauge) Perhaps the best known of all French preserved
railways, it suddenly closed in 2008 (18th April
2008) but has since risen from its
death bed. Robert Brown has pointed out than Euros 13,000,000 has been invested
in the CF Vivarais with the result that 'Velorail' services were available in
2011, railcars ran in 2012 and steam returned in 2013.
The main website was http://www.mastrou.com/ ((site ineffective by September
2015), now it is http://trainardeche.fr/wp/
(English).
The restoration has been recorded in a series of pages from May 2011 http://www.forum-train.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5972&start=0.
The only real downside is the loss of the connection to the main line at Tournon
with its mixed gauge running. By 2015, SACM Mallet 414 is now also operational and alternates in service with SLM Mallet 403.
Thomas Kautzor was here just after re-opening in
July 2013 and you can read his somewhat jaundiced
report of what he found. "Must try harder"
sums it up (20th September 2013).

There's precious little steam (and none of it active) in James Waite's report
on the narrow gauge railways of Mont Blanc, but
plenty of interest to the ng enthusiast in general (25th August 2011, updated
21st October 2013 and again 20th June 2015).

For a summary of extant lines please check out http://www.schmalspurbahn.de/
(German language site). A further internet search should identify English
language sites where they exist. I have not been able to identify an English
language site covering the German narrow gauge (steam) railways adequately.

Not strictly an operating railway, although it
has a lengthy demonstration line some 2km long is the Frankfurter Feldbahn Museum,
you can read about James
Waite's June 2009 visit (added 21st June 2009). Chris Yapp was here in June
2012 and you can see his photo report (14th
June 2012). Thomas Kautzor was here at the
end of May 2014, this place is now very special (6th June 2014). Thomas
Kautzor attended the Museum's 40th anniversary
celebrations in May 2015 (19th May 2015).

In the same style are two short railways visited by Thomas Kautzor,
Nüremberg's Feldbahnmuseum 500 e.V (30th
September 2013) and Berlin's Parkeisenbahn
with appendix covering 'Merapi' a Javan
Returnee... and information on its sister locomotives, (both added 30th
September 2013).

The following are, perhaps, among the better known of those operating steam services,
being mainly in the former East Germany and having maintained 'real steam' into
reunification, but now they are all effectively 'preserved' operations. But
there is a lot more than these if you dig around in the site above and I shall
be happy to add specific recommendations to the list below.

Bad Doberan's Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn "Molli" GmbH - 900mm -
http://www.molli-bahn.de. The railway has commissioned a
brand new extra locomotive to deal with its buoyant traffic http://www.molli-bahn.de/Dampflokomotive_99_2324-4.295.0.html
(added 7th December 2008, link dead by October 2014). It was delivered on 25th March and will
presumably enter service shortly reports Louis Cerny (19th April 2009).

Freital-Hainsberg - Dippoldiswalde - Kipsdorf "Weißeritztalbahn" -
750mm
- http://www.weisseritztalbahn.de/
This line will have re-opened as far as Dippoldiswalde on December 14th 2008
with 6 trains a day (noted 1st December 2008)

Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH - 1000mm - http://www.hsb-wr.de/
- If you search Google using "site:www.hsb-wr.de Harzquer Railway"
then there are several English language pages with information but I have
yet to find any page linking them! Trevor Heath has uploaded some pictures
from his September 2008 visit (added 14th October 2008). Edward Buchanan
has provided a short reminder of how
steamy and attractive this railway is (16th August 2016).

The
Öchsle Museumsbahn is the last surviving 750mm gauge line of four worked by
the
The Royal Württemberg State Railways. Read Thomas
Kautzor's report on the occasion of the re-entry into traffic of Mallet
99 633 (more pictures from James Waite, 22nd October 2015).

The Hartsfeld Museumsbahn is
a short section of the original 55km line between Aalen and Dillingen, based
at Neresheim, which was the principal intermediate station. James Waite
visited this very hospitable metre gauge line in September 2018, read
his illustrated report (8th October 2018).

North Rhine-Westphalia

The metre gauge Selfkantbahn (http://www.selfkantbahn.de/ operates over a 5.5 km section of the former Geilenkirchener Kreisbahn
(GKB), a 37.7 km long metre gauge railway near the border with the Netherlands.
Thomas Kautzor was here in April 2014
(27th May 2014).

The following are historical notes which were originally hosted on the main
Europe page but are more appropriately now placed here.

David Thornhill (19th March 2003) has gently chastised me for not promoting the steam on
the various narrow gauge systems of the former East Germany, some of which could
then fairly be
regarded as very real. Read
his review of the services (updated 14th December 2003).

Louis Cerny has visited the well known Harz lines and has sent a short report (10th November
2003). Louis also reports on an unusual gauge narrowing on this railway with
consequential new steam service (9th April 2006):
"The Harzer Schmalspur Bahnen will formally open its new line from Quedlinburg to Gernrode (converted from 1435mm to 1000mm gauge) on April 8th with a special 5 hr 33 min trip from Quedlinburg to Brocken using three steam locomotives. My understanding is that a regular service of three steam round trips per day (plus additional railcar trips) between Quedlinburg and Gernrode will start June 26, and that test steam trains have operated since March
4th." Louis also tells me the welcome news (1st
December 2008) that at long last the Freital-Hainsberg - Dippoldiswalde - Kipsdorf "Weißeritztalbahn"
will have re-opened as far as Dippoldiswalde on 14th December 2008.

Roland Beier points out that when the long trumpeted transfer of the Radebeul
Ost-Radeburg line occurs (expected in December 2003, again in April 2004 and now most
likely in May 2004) then this will finally bring to an end scheduled steam on DB. (7th April 2004).
Andreas Illert adds (8th September 2004) - the transfer of the Radebeul-Radeburg line from DB to
BVO Bahn GmbH (the operator of the Cranzahl-Oberwiesental line) happened on June 21, so scheduled steam on DB is over (once again after 1977).

Greece (updated
19th November 2016)

Many metre gauge steam locomotives survive, but I have not seen any
suggestions that any are serviceable. The 600mm line to Milies has been part
restored as a tourist operation but owing to fire risk, their steam locomotives
see limited operation. Local railfans charter steam trains here from time to
time. For more pictures visit http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/narrow_gauge/steam/pix.html
which also includes static preserved items elsewhere in the country.

James Waite went to Volos and rode one of the rare specials on 6th March 2010
- read his
report which includes pictures of other preserved narrow and metre gauge
items (15th March 2010).

The 750mm gauge line between Diakofto and Kalavryta is a (part) rack system which
in theory could see steam charters but no reports of such seem to have been made
in recent years. The line is reported open and working normally with new diesel
railcars after repairs in November 2009 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diakofto_Kalavrita_Railway.
In the circumstances of the country as a whole, astonishing news is that DK
8.001 based at Kalavryta has been overhauled and since joined by a coach. Test
runs within the station (May 2015) and to Kerpini (June 2015) have been
completed and once remaining considerable formalities are completed the way will
be open for occasional special trains. The picture is courtesy of Nikos
Kantitirs. For a local version of the story and an extended YouTube clip, see http://www.kalavrytanews.com/2015/06/Steam-Locomotive-dk-8001-on-test-Run-at-Kalavrita.html.
(9th July 2015) James Waite attended the 120th anniversary celebrations in
November 2016, read his report (19th November
2016).

There appears to be a 14km preserved forestry railway at Lillafüred with
some steam operation
- read James
Waite's report (added 24th September 2010), James also visited Szilvasvarad
nearby which has one steam locomotive which may be serviceable.

The Királyrét Forest Railway connects Kismaros and
Szokolya, located near the Duna-Ipoly National Park and the Slovak border. Ex
Romanian 490.2004 operates here from time to time but you'll have to negotiate
this website to find out exactly when - http://www.kisvasut-kiralyret.fw.hu/
(17th November 2009).

Peter Nettleship recommends the Budapest Children's Railway (formerly the
Young Pioneers' Railway until 1990), in the Buda Hills and easily combined with
rides on the rack tram and funicular - see http://www.gyermekvasut.com
(moved from the museums page, 21st November 2009, link dead by 25th October
2016), according to their website
steam is used at the weekends.

Ireland
(updated 24th February 2012)

The vast majority of Ireland's wonderful 3ft gauge railways were swept away
many years ago. The Irish Steam Preservation Society have a small operational
railway of relatively recent origin - http://irishsteam.ie/.

Not strictly for this section as it is non-operational, but as I don't list
Irish museums... James Waite has sent a report of the
Ulster Transport and Folk Museum which has many narrow gauge exhibits (24th
February 2012).

The best known of such railways are those on Sardinia, several of which have
steam locomotives which are nominally serviceable but they seem only to be used
for well-heeled tour groups and even then, not entirely in accordance with the
advertised schedule... James
Waite was in Sardinia in May 2009 and provided an illustrated report (17th June
2009). Clive Hepworth visited the lines in June
2017, he found the island charming but the solitary active steam locomotive
runs but rarely, the museum is closed and the service trains are not well
supported (11th July 2017).

Also on the mainland in Calabria there are two 950mm gauge sections run by the Ferrovie della
Calabria, both of them very much working railways. James Waite has produced an article on
the Ferrovie
Calabro-Lucane including a map (updated 24th February 2010, based on a previous
article, 26th November 2009). The article has now been updated to reflect
353's return to service (8th September 2015).

One is based on Cosenza and consists of two lines up into the mountains, one of which finishes at Catanzaro Lido on the south coast and includes a short rack section down an escarpment from Catanzaro city. In theory three steam locos are available for tourist trains out of
Cosenza. RTC had, optimistically as ever, promised to run all three of them, no's. 353, 403 and (rack) 504 in action on three days in September 2008. In practice it was fortunate that 353's boiler certificate had been temporarily extended which allowed it to operate on one of the days as 403's repairs were never going to be completed in time (the loco was recently described as 'a kit of parts') and 504 is currently in Cosenza works with front end problems... It was probably a good job that the local vino is very palatable!

The second section is based on Gioia Tauro. There's been no active steam here for many years but
Breda-built 2-6-0T 188 has been kept in semi-open storage at Gioia Tauro depot and there's a long-term plan to restore it to working order.

Recommended (by James Waite) narrow gauge destinations are below - you can read
his report on them (added 25th September 2007):

Valkenburgse Meer (National) Narrow Gauge Museum (SVM) (700mm with other
gauges as exhibits), Valkenburg near Leiden. Kees Plug writes (13th February
2016) "We recently (2015) changed our name from Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer / Nationaal Smalspoormuseum to Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden. Accordingly the name of the site has changed to
www.stoomtreinkatwijkleiden.nl. We now also have an English page
www.stoomtreinkatwijkleiden.nl/english/."

”Tertitten” - the Urskog-Hølandsbanen Railway.
James was back for spectacular steam with sun and snow in December 2010 - see
his report! The show will be repeated on December 19th (God permitting
for the sun) and again on New Year's Eve when a certain gentleman called Roar Stenersen will be driving
the latter news added, 15th December 2010). Chris Yapp has provided
an update (13th August 2013).

The Lommedalsbanen is an industrial railway museum with a short 600mm gauge running line of around one kilometre in length in the forest near Lommedalen which is about 10
km from Sandvika on the main Oslo to Drammen road. See Chris Yapp's short
report from 2013 (13th August 2013).

Mark Palmer prodded me into providing some better information on the
Polish narrow gauge scene and now James Waite has produced an
article which summarises the situation in 2012 (updated 3rd August 2012).
That report is now clearly dated and a rare good bit of good news is that
the Krosnice Park Railway is now operational with some services operated by PKP Px48-1907
which was formerly on the Nowy Dwór system. For more information consult http://krosnicepelnapara.pl/cms/index.php/narrow-gauge-railway-of-krosnice
(26th December 2013, link dead by October 2014).

The Sroda line, which friends of Mark Palmer visited in
2011 (they said it still looked much the same as in my 1995 photos), is a steam-worked preserved operation running at summer
weekends, see http://www.sredzkakolej.pl/ (some information in English).
Click here for a report of James Waite's visits for
charters in April 2008 and 2012
(14th June 2012).

The Gniezno line may run summer weekend tourist trains, but it
currently has problems, see http://www.gkw-gniezno.pl/ (Polish only).
Click here for a report of James Waite's visit for a charter in April 2012
(14th June 2012).

James Waite visited Cisna - a former forestry railway in the Carpathians
now a tourist railway - for one of their fairly
rare steam days (updated 13th June 2010).

James Waite visited the Gryfice
Railway (and associated metre gauge museum) back in 2008. As the railway
reaches re-opening after reconstruction, his
report is very welcome (17th June 2012).

James Waite completes his survey of the remaining preserved railways with
some steam operation with a visit to Elk
(1st August 2012)

Portugal (updated 4th
October 2007)

Metre gauge Mallet E214 has been serviceable in recent
years but a combination of fire bans, gauge conversions and sundry other
problems have severely limited operation. The last report of it I have was
that it had been "moved from Regua to Guifoes works for inspection"
in April 2007, by September 2007 it was back in Regua where there were 5
other Mallets in fair condition (report by Trevor Heath - click
here for pictures - added 4th October 2007).

The railway at Viseus de Sus remains operational on a
reduced scale - click
here for the reports. As of mid-2008, the service was suspended owing to
severe flood damage, but the line has since re-opened.

Since when a number of narrow gauge steam
locomotives have been restored to operational condition. Bertram Frenzel
reports on the possibilities to see active
steam in the country (14th September 2015), either on tourist trains or
authentic recreations.

Russia
(updated 11th April 2017)

For an entry point into the world of Russian (and former
Russian Empire) narrow gauge start here - http://narrow.parovoz.com/indexe.php.
Unfortunately the rest of the site is in Russian...

The Wikipedia entry for Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock known to be incomplete but
useful especially for the content on this page (16th June 2014)

James Waite tells me that the narrow gauge museum at Pereslavl (email
contact: "office at kukushka.ru") had a steaming week
which saw Ft4 0-6-2T on Monday-Tuesday (two days, June 18th/19th 2012) and the
Kp-4 0-8-0 on Thursday-Friday (two
days, June 21st/22nd 2012). The Ft4 loco is 0-6-2T
Ft-4-028 (Фт4-028 in Cyrillic script), one of a series built for the USSR as WW2 reparations by the Finns and the only survivor of its class. The
Kp-4 loco is
Kp-4-469 (Кп4-469), one of the Polish-built PT-4 locos
(= Chinese
C2's), (all this 6th
May 2012). James returned in June 2012 to see
two of the locomotives in steam (27th June 2012).

The children's railway at Ekaterinburg has
an OK 0-8-T, restored 0-8-0 VP-4-1425 and is working on Gr- 318 from Georgia,
this system is often referred to as a narrow gauge museum, but operates
through the summer from May (11th April 2017).

Wikipedia states there
were 52 children's railways in the former Soviet Union at the time of
its break up and lists some of them and those in satellite countries. For a
Russian site dedicated to them see http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/.

Serbia
(updated 9th March 2011)

There is working steam at Kostolac Open Cast Mine, several 900mm Davenport 0-8-0's like UNRRA locomotives
are here. For the reports check the Europe page on
this site.

There is a narrow gauge railway and museum at Mokra Gora.

James Waite has a little belatedly supplied an illustrated
report of his visit to Mokra Gora in June
2008 (9th March 2011).

Part of the former Kysuce-Orava railway is a 7km 760mm gauge line starting
from Skanzen Station, about 20km east of Čadca, it includes a reverse. As
far as I can gather it is part of the Kysuce Village Museum. See (all added 18th
November 2009):

History of this line - http://www.kruzok.sk/oldkruz/E_IND.HTM (website
dead by 29th October 2017)

http://www.expea.sk/EN/sluzby_nazelanie.html (link is dead but it was a good source on Slovak railways in general, added 18th November 2009) states
that "The Kysuce-Orava Forest Railway (KOLZ) came into existence by joining the Kysuce Forest Railway and the Orava Forest Railway - both railways are 760 mm gauge. At the peak of its fame, it had 110km. It had exclusively served for transporting wood. Its exceptionality lies in its well-preserved system of switch tracks. At present, the railway is divided into two parts: the part in the region of Kysuce as the Historical Forest Zig Zag Railway(HLÚŽ) and the part in the region of Orava as the Forest Zig Zag Railway Tanečník - Beskyd (LÚŽ). In future, the two railways shall be reconnected."
It will be the former which is described above, the latter appears to be diesel
powered.

Thomas Kautzor has been back to the area and reports on the metre gauge rack FGC Ribes de Freser – Núria
and the 600mm gauge FGC La Pobla de Lillet,
neither has active steam but there are some interesting steam survivors among
the non-steam preserved stock (8th August
2015).

Thomas Kautzor reported on the
metre gauge CIFVM La Poveda on the outskirts of Madrid which has limited
running dates owing to fire risks (20th January 2016), he subsequently revisited
in March 2017 (18th April 2017)..

There are a few narrow gauge items in Thomas
Kautzor's report of a February 2016 visit to
Andalusia (22nd March 2017), Thomas has also sent a report on the remains of
the salt pan railways on Ibiza and Formentera
(22nd March 2017).

The Basque Railway Museum at Azpeitia has an
associated 5km stretch of metre gauge railway, James
Waite visited in October 2018 (20th October 2018)..

See also Fritz W. Klasing's brief
photo report of a set of visits in July 2011 (12th August 2011). Keith
Chambers' report on a visit to Småland has no live steam but plenty of
narrow gauge interest including preserved steam locomotives (27th
August 2011).

Chris Yapp visited a number of these narrow gauge lines in
July 2012 and his illustrated report updates James Waite's original reports (3rd
August 2012).

Thomas Kautzor reports on the Schinznacher
Baumschulbahn, until recently the country's only 600mm gauge steam railway (updated
26th October 2016). The Parkbahn Letten
near Zurich, now has an active steam locomotive used on special occasions
(11th September 2015).

The metre gauge Chemin de Fer du Jura operates two
former CP Mallets from time to time. You can read Thomas
Kautzor's report (12th September 2015)

Click here for James
Waite's report on his visit to the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke in September 2009,
a spectacular (part) rack metre gauge railway with some pretty well travelled
steam locomotives (11th November 2009).

Note that the Waldenburgerbahn is undergoing
gauge conversion (to metre gauge) during 2018 and on 23rd September 2018,
there was a last steam run after which the loco was incarcerated in a
glass coffin - there being nowhere in the country to run it. (updated 8th
October 2018)

There's precious little steam (and none of it active) in James Waite's report
on the narrow
gauge railways of Mont Blanc, but plenty of interest to the ng enthusiast in
general (25th August 2011)

Turkey (added 28th January 2010)

James Waite sent a report on the Rahmi
M Koç museum, Istanbul (2nd October 2007) indicating that two narrow
gauge steam locomotives were 'missing'. Richard Foster has added
an update (29th January 2010) which indicates
that narrow gauge steam will soon be running in the heart of Istanbul.

There has been a preserved narrow gauge railway for some time between Irshava and Vynohradiv
- see http://spz.logout.cz/uzke/ua_borzava/borzava.html
(needs translating from Czech) which continued to operate into 2010, albeit with
diesels. Gr 6
286 was at Irshava but has now been relocated to Kolochava, reports Jonathan
Sutton (8th September 2010) who has
sent some pictures.